Éditions Alphonse Leduc

[citation needed] The family musical origins began in Arnay-le-Duc in Burgundy and its first musician, Antoine Girard.

His son, Alphonse-Charles Leduc (Paris 1844-1892), created the important instrumental teaching collections which became the company's specialty and have been constantly expanded ever since.

Alphonse-Charles's son, Alphonse Émile Leduc (1878–1951), continued the teaching collections, developed the company's school auditions and published several important symphonic composers.

[citation needed] Éditions Alphonse Leduc have absorbed a number of publishing companies during their existence, in recent years B.G., Bornemann, C.Y., Gras, Hamelle, Heugel, Hortensia, King, Notissimo and Ouvrières .

Léopold Heugel was succeeded on his death in 1883 by his son Henri, since when the company remained in the family until it was bought by Leduc in 1980.

The Heugel catalogue includes all musical genres, both French and international, in particular opera and operetta (Jules Massenet, Ambroise Thomas, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Édouard Lalo, Léo Delibes, Jacques Offenbach, etc.).

Since 1920 Heugel has published much modern music, including that of Reynaldo Hahn, Joseph Canteloube, Francis Poulenc, Darius Milhaud, André Jolivet, and more recently Pierre Boulez, Henri Dutilleux, Betsy Jolas, Gilbert Amy.

Le Pupitre, a collection of early music, was started in 1967 under the general editorship of François Lesure; its critical editions are highly respected by musicologists all over the world.